:07:49. > :07:53.You can only beat who is there on the day. Fair play to him, for a
:07:53. > :08:03.lad to come and win the final, good on him. People can say, could have,
:08:03. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:10.would have, should have, but he has done it and he deserves it. He was
:08:10. > :08:14.this incredible diver what won a gold medal in '84. He and without
:08:14. > :08:22.and out one of the best divers in the world.
:08:22. > :08:28.Yep, he was as good as it gets but in 1988 Greg Luganis lost his head.
:08:28. > :08:33.He has misjudged it and banged his head on the board!!. That has to
:08:33. > :08:41.hurt doesn't it. This kid's face does it all. He could surely not
:08:41. > :08:46.survive. The Olympics were over over. Not really - he doesn't do
:08:46. > :08:50.dying, he does diving. Incredibly he and his sore head went on to
:08:50. > :08:53.achieve Olympic glory. The crowd are on their feet!!
:08:53. > :09:01.CHEERING Two days later with stitches he
:09:02. > :09:05.goes on and wins the gold medal. How hardcore is that!! Is there any
:09:05. > :09:11.other athlete who could come back so quickly from such an injury and
:09:12. > :09:19.win a gold medal? He is ironman. I stubbed my toe on that board I am
:09:19. > :09:25.never going near one again. He gets up and wins the gold - brilliant.
:09:25. > :09:30.Greg Luganis an Olympic hero and head and shoulders above the rest.
:09:30. > :09:37.The 1984 Olympic game, American style. Yep, land of the free, home
:09:37. > :09:47.of the brave and in 1984 host of the greatest ceremony ever seen.
:09:47. > :09:48.
:09:48. > :09:53.warm welcome from the citizens of California. LA marked a huge scale
:09:53. > :10:00.in the drama of opening ceremonies. There was even a rocket.
:10:00. > :10:06.It is going to be a long, long time... # The rocketman had nothing
:10:06. > :10:09.to do with the Olympic, it was just something amazingly cool. He just
:10:09. > :10:14.comes out of nowhere and flies around a bit and then he is
:10:14. > :10:18.carrying the flame, wasn't like a rocketman relay - it was just one
:10:18. > :10:28.rocketman on his own. P in if that wasn't enough, how
:10:28. > :10:36.about a sing along with this lady. We can be chasing if we can start
:10:36. > :10:44.giving...# Cut to Paris and there were people holding hands, people
:10:44. > :10:47.in Rotterdam holding hands. then there was us we may has well
:10:47. > :10:52.have been eating leeks I was ridiculous.
:10:52. > :11:02.The closing ceremony was out of this world. It was a sci-fi
:11:02. > :11:03.
:11:03. > :11:07.spectacular. The love child of Frankenstein and
:11:07. > :11:13.a storm trooper had a message for the watching world. I have come a
:11:13. > :11:19.long way because I like what I have seen. It wouldn't surprise me if
:11:19. > :11:23.people switched that on and went, "Oh, my God, the aliens have
:11:23. > :11:29.landed". You want to come in here, you will never guess what has
:11:29. > :11:32.turned up at the closing ceremony. I salute you!!
:11:32. > :11:37.CHEERING It is the show that kept on giving.
:11:37. > :11:42.How do you top that all off? Lionel Ritchie.
:11:42. > :11:48.Come join our party # See how we play
:11:48. > :11:53.# Come on!! # All night long# Music, Martians
:11:53. > :12:00.and monumental madness. LA through down the gauntlet. How can future
:12:00. > :12:05.games compete. Keep watching we have a few more coming up.
:12:05. > :12:10.I use this place as a retirement home for old Olympians. It take as
:12:10. > :12:15.lot of upkeep but you should think about moving in A kind of
:12:15. > :12:18.retirement film for golden oldies. Yeah. No silver, no bronze. As I
:12:18. > :12:22.said to you many times is it not about the winning it is about
:12:22. > :12:32.taking part. Show me that bronze again that you won in Athens.
:12:32. > :12:36.but you didn't win that, did you?? When I sat on the start line for
:12:36. > :12:40.the Olympic games in '92 I was an unemployed carpenter with a wife
:12:40. > :12:47.and two kids and absolutely no money.
:12:47. > :12:50.In 1992 Chris Bordman was Britain's greatest hope in Barcelona. He
:12:51. > :12:54.would need enthusiasm, positivity and total belief to win the gold
:12:54. > :12:57.and if it was a gold medal for modesty too, he was the man.
:12:57. > :13:01.didn't believe that I was going to win because that happens to other
:13:01. > :13:11.people, people that you see on television.
:13:11. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:19.A beautiful day...# In the final he was up against Yens Lavee. He is in
:13:19. > :13:23.the lead. It was an exhilarating moment for Britain but Chris had
:13:23. > :13:29.his wheels firmly on the ground. lot of athletes manage to get
:13:29. > :13:34.excited. I just used to get scared. Chris Boardman has the world
:13:34. > :13:38.champion in his sights. He went on to made a mockery of the German,
:13:39. > :13:43.lapping him. He is doing a demolition job on the German.
:13:43. > :13:47.was unstoppable. He doesn't just catch him - he overtakes him and on
:13:47. > :13:52.the line he is ahead. Completely inconceivable. He is going to take
:13:52. > :13:56.the gold med a will to become the 4,000m Olympic champion and he does
:13:56. > :14:01.just that!! To be lapped on a velodrome is unheard of and to do
:14:01. > :14:05.it at the Olympics is a credit to how much of a beast he was and the
:14:05. > :14:09.fact that he had the guts to think I am not just going to win this I
:14:09. > :14:14.am going to overtake him. One of the greatest gold medal perp form
:14:14. > :14:19.answers I have ever seen. Chris Boardman is the Olympic champion.
:14:19. > :14:24.But Chris remained the unflappable model of British reserve and
:14:24. > :14:31.modesty. I was aware but emotionally not the euphoria that I
:14:31. > :14:38.was expecting. I am always a glass half empty kind of person. Christ
:14:38. > :14:46.Boardman cyclinging super hero, not that he would ever let it go to his
:14:46. > :14:51.head head. Dale Beadman. An Olympic inspare rigs. In 1988 she had been
:14:51. > :14:55.diagnosed with graves disease, a thyroid problem which can lead to
:14:55. > :14:59.heart damage, strokes and blindness. After receiving treatment she was
:14:59. > :15:03.told by doctors she was lucky to survive. She could have lost her
:15:03. > :15:07.feet but she came back, not only did she fight the disease which was
:15:07. > :15:11.an achievement in itself, but she got herself back to Olympic level
:15:11. > :15:20.fitness. In 1992, just 19 months after being unable to stand up, she
:15:20. > :15:24.was back on the starting line for the 100m final. You think an
:15:24. > :15:28.athlete who had almost lost their feet would never come back to the
:15:28. > :15:32.sport shoe had the fighting spirit in her and she could quite
:15:32. > :15:37.realistic win a medal - it was amazing.
:15:37. > :15:41.It is very tight and she has got it in lane 2 and that is a big, big
:15:41. > :15:44.surprise. She overcomes this incredible almost terminal illness,
:15:44. > :15:54.comes back to the Olympics and win as gold medal. It is a great moment
:15:54. > :15:55.
:15:55. > :16:00.in sport. Gail Beavers one of life's survivors.
:16:00. > :16:04.Next we have the story of a man who wasn't satisfied with being the
:16:04. > :16:09.best at one discipline - he wanted to be the best at ten. It is no-one
:16:09. > :16:13.as the toughest event of them all, the decathlon. Ten different
:16:13. > :16:18.discipline, each of them more demanding, challenging and harder
:16:18. > :16:28.than the one that came before. thank you, Dean. This isn't about
:16:28. > :16:32.you. This is about the other fella. The one with the moustache.
:16:32. > :16:38.crowd already applauding. The greatest all-round athlete in the
:16:39. > :16:42.world. At the 1980 games in Moscow daily Thomson stormed to gold in
:16:42. > :16:47.the decathlon. The Olympic champion. And a sporting icon was born,
:16:48. > :16:54.inspiring our nation's children and facial hair habits. But it was in
:16:54. > :17:01.LA four years later that the man with the, the ash that made hulk
:17:01. > :17:04.Hogan look like a schoolgirl cemented himself in the British
:17:04. > :17:09.cyclinging. But could his performance patch his personalityal
:17:09. > :17:18.allow him to win a second successive gold and become a
:17:18. > :17:21.legend? Yes!! He is rock 'n' roll. He is like a living, breathing
:17:21. > :17:27.action man. The Swiss army athlete - he can do everything, he is
:17:27. > :17:34.amazing. He is dancing in the circle. Daly Thomson was a rock
:17:34. > :17:37.star in the '80s. He was my hero, every boy love and worshiped him.
:17:37. > :17:43.World champion and now twice Olympic champion and there is no-
:17:43. > :17:46.one in the world that can match that record. He did it, making
:17:46. > :17:49.history and giving the nation one of its greatest Olympic moments
:17:49. > :17:55.winning not only the second gold in the decathlon but smashing the
:17:55. > :17:59.world record in the process. It was a fantastic performance. He show
:18:00. > :18:04.cased his full range of skills and strengths. He could do nothing but
:18:04. > :18:07.make headlines. Whether it was on the track or on the podium,
:18:07. > :18:10.whistling the national anthem rather than singing it. He probably
:18:11. > :18:17.nailed it. He is probably doing some complex harmony. I don't think
:18:17. > :18:24.that was him trying to be rude, I think that is just his rebellious
:18:24. > :18:30.side. Nobody does it better ...# There is
:18:30. > :18:34.no denying there is anyone quite like Daly Thomson. He is still rock
:18:34. > :18:39.'n' roll. I have been to numerous black tie events and he rocks up in
:18:39. > :18:46.a tracksuit and you think what are you doing? But you know what - he
:18:46. > :18:56.is Daly Thomson, he can!! Baby, baby
:18:56. > :18:57.
:18:57. > :19:01.# You are the best # The triple jump. One of the select Olympic
:19:01. > :19:05.sports that Britain chooses to excel at. Jonathan Edwards left a
:19:06. > :19:11.mark anywhere the sand when he took the gold in Sydney 2000 so
:19:11. > :19:17.naturally in 2004 all eyes were own his successor as he sought gold at
:19:17. > :19:23.the Athens games. Philip Sudo is only guy who has taken to any sport
:19:23. > :19:33.and I have sat there and gone, woah, who is this player? But it didn't
:19:33. > :19:33.
:19:33. > :19:39.quite go to plan. He is a great athlete, he wins medals however on
:19:39. > :19:43.this day awful. Everyone can seize up just before that big moment. I
:19:43. > :19:47.am sure there is many men and that big moment is about to happen and
:19:47. > :19:51.they can't rise to the challenge. Second attempt. He really needs to
:19:51. > :19:57.get a jump in here. We can forgive anyone a single mistake but two is
:19:57. > :20:01.making the Micky. He has a rad flag and now he is in real trouble.
:20:01. > :20:08.has been training for years. How are you getting this wrong time
:20:08. > :20:12.after time? He had one more chance to get it right. And he has failed
:20:12. > :20:22.that as well. Philip Sudo is out of the Olympic triple jump. Nothing.
:20:22. > :20:25.That is your event, that is what you train for - nothing. Having a
:20:25. > :20:28.complete matter in the whole stadium let alone the rest of the
:20:28. > :20:35.world watching it must be pretty difficult to take. Where do you go
:20:35. > :20:39.from here? Home. It was more than a bad hair day in Athens but four
:20:39. > :20:49.years later Philip has picked up a silver in Beijing and has
:20:49. > :20:53.
:20:53. > :20:58.maintained his progress since. How will he fare in London and how will
:20:58. > :21:02.he be styling his hair? When he gets the jump and nails it he is
:21:02. > :21:06.unbeatable. 2012 he is going to get gold. Don't let us down, big guy.
:21:06. > :21:10.For all the glory of the Olympics, sometimes there are athletes who do
:21:10. > :21:13.their best but their best simply isn't good enough. That is right,
:21:13. > :21:17.Richard, you can have bucket loads of determination but without talent
:21:17. > :21:23.you are never going to climb on top of that medal podium. For those
:21:23. > :21:33.athletes they may as well just have stayed at home. Do you mean like
:21:33. > :21:34.
:21:34. > :21:40.Eddie the Eagle. No, Colin, I mean Eric the'Ll. -- Eel. Here is Eddie
:21:40. > :21:46.in his prime. We love an underdog in this country, people trying
:21:46. > :21:49.their best but never winning anything. We were introduced to an
:21:49. > :21:58.another Olympic underdog that blew Eddie the Eagle out of the water
:21:58. > :22:03.and will burn on in our memory. introducing Eric... Athens two
:22:03. > :22:07.competitors got disqualified for false starts. Eric found himself as
:22:07. > :22:12.the sole swimmer in an early heat. Unbeknown he had only learned to
:22:12. > :22:17.swim eight months before and had not evidence ever got his trunks
:22:17. > :22:25.wet in a Olympic-sized pool. All his training was down in a 20m
:22:25. > :22:28.hotel pool. Eric the Eel was a man who could essentially pairly swim.
:22:28. > :22:33.All was going OK but someone told him he had to go back again.
:22:33. > :22:38.first length he gets through it but on the way back the guy is
:22:38. > :22:42.knackered! He is racing no-one and yet still he almost didn't finish
:22:42. > :22:45.it. This guy doesn't look as if he was going to make it. I am on the
:22:45. > :22:49.sudden of the pool doing interviews and I thought I was going to have
:22:49. > :22:54.to go in and get him. There is a possibility that he is not going to
:22:54. > :22:58.make to it the end of the 100m race. Slowly but surely the Aussies in
:22:58. > :23:02.the crowd start to get behind him. He will make it. This is the
:23:02. > :23:06.Olympics. He has 10,000 people shouting for him. There is a bit in
:23:06. > :23:09.the end where you are watching when you think please, dude please make
:23:09. > :23:16.it. You don't want to it be the Olympics where we send the life
:23:16. > :23:23.guard in to save you. Eric wins the 100m freestyle. He climbs out at
:23:23. > :23:31.Eric the Eel as he finally managed to doggy paddle his way to victory
:23:31. > :23:35.in the slowst time of 1 minute and Good. I am happy The swimming pool
:23:35. > :23:38.facilities must be very, very poor but if there isn't a pool to take
:23:38. > :23:44.advantage some of of the hundreds of miles of coastline. In the next
:23:44. > :23:47.few years Eric was keen to show the world that the'Ll was the real deal
:23:47. > :23:51.but sadly the government wouldn't grant him a visa to travel to
:23:51. > :24:00.Athens four years later. It was a great moment. It was again one of
:24:00. > :24:05.those things that, you know, makes the women will picks special. --
:24:05. > :24:10.Olympics special. Martin Luther King had a dream. Gabrielle had a
:24:10. > :24:17.dream and I have a strange recurring dream voluming lots of
:24:17. > :24:22.rabbits. But it was the Dream Team that stole the show. Perhapss the
:24:22. > :24:26.most predictable gold madal of the entire 25th Olympiad. It was a
:24:26. > :24:33.dream because they were basically a team of superstars. These guys were
:24:33. > :24:36.the best players on the planet. Magic Johnson. Charles barkly.
:24:36. > :24:40.Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time and
:24:40. > :24:44.you had another least another five huge names. That kind of team if
:24:44. > :24:47.you assembled it when you were on the PlayStation or the Xbox, put it
:24:47. > :24:51.together, you would think you were cheating. But it wasn't cheating
:24:51. > :24:56.because for the first time ever stars from the NBA were allowed to
:24:56. > :25:00.compete at the Olympic Games. Imagine if like today's Barcelona
:25:00. > :25:09.football team went and played in the Liege - that is how superior
:25:09. > :25:13.they were. This is exhibition stuff even this early on. It was sporting
:25:13. > :25:21.equivalent of Paris Hilton taking on Stephen Hawking and the results
:25:21. > :25:29.were inevitable. The US almost toying with them. They annoy lated
:25:29. > :25:36.practically everyone. It was like the Harlem globe trotters every
:25:36. > :25:44.game just showing up and taking the Micky. They beat every team but an
:25:44. > :25:49.average of 40-something points. It was ridiculous how easy it was to
:25:49. > :25:55.them. It was men and against boys stuff, albeit the boys were
:25:55. > :25:59.freakishly tall. Croatian were the Opposition in the final with the US
:25:59. > :26:06.scoring 117 pointsen route to victory. You can't have five top
:26:06. > :26:12.athletic black guys against a team of five wide dudes from Croatia in
:26:12. > :26:16.a game that involves running fast and jumping high. Round the back.
:26:16. > :26:23.Back to Johnson. Wonderful stuff. They are never going to win that.
:26:23. > :26:33.The result by no mean as surprise, the performance as expected. Magic
:26:33. > :26:35.
:26:35. > :26:41.Johnson and the USA the Dream Team, the Olympic champions.
:26:41. > :26:47.Still to come - injury. Yeah, it is mad, yeah, it is a little bit
:26:47. > :26:52.insane. That is what the Olympics are and that is what it takes to be
:26:52. > :26:56.a winner. Infai mow my. The light comes on the box and it was obvious.
:26:56. > :27:05.It looks like she hit her head on the bottom on the way and she had
:27:05. > :27:11.been attacked by a hen party somewhere. American swimmer Mark
:27:11. > :27:19.Spitz was: Just the sing of the pool but he had the look. Nothing
:27:20. > :27:29.says '70 God like a Beatle haircut and a Tarsh. He was like magnum PI
:27:29. > :27:35.porn star, that is Mark Spitz. is the best moustache ever grown by
:27:35. > :27:44.a man. Now you have to shave all the hair off so you are not going
:27:44. > :27:48.to grow one of them which means you could lose by 1/100th of a second.
:27:48. > :27:58.What a shame, technology have robbed the Olympic swimmer from
:27:58. > :28:08.having a good mozzy. Another gold medal and a world record for the
:28:08. > :28:10.
:28:11. > :28:15.super fish. In 1972 Spitz won every gold medal in a every race he went
:28:15. > :28:20.in. He could have swam so much faster if he had put a cap on and
:28:20. > :28:28.shaved off the moustache. What he did was amazing. Seven golds, seven
:28:28. > :28:31.records. It was never going to be beaten. But it was. 36 years later
:28:31. > :28:34.thanks to fellow American Michael Phelps. When a record like that
:28:34. > :28:38.gets beaten you are not cool any more, you don't have anything to
:28:38. > :28:43.tell people at dinner parties because you are not the greatest
:28:43. > :28:47.Olympian any more, someone else is. The only true barometer is we can
:28:47. > :28:57.only judge it for its point in history. He was best guy in the
:28:57. > :28:59.
:28:59. > :29:03.world at that Olympic Games on seven events. Imagine - the
:29:03. > :29:08.athleticism needed not just to race against the clock but to have to
:29:08. > :29:13.hurdle fences at full pelt at well. No, is it not easy. Explosive power,
:29:13. > :29:20.the focus, the timing. It has to be one of the toughest Olympic events
:29:20. > :29:29.of all time. You are about to show my silver medal win. No, something
:29:29. > :29:34.better, something called horse pentathlon. So it is actually
:29:34. > :29:39.called the modern pentathlon invented in time for the 1912 games
:29:40. > :29:46.and based around the fine school she thought a cavilry officer would
:29:46. > :29:51.need. It is an odd event. It is shooting, fencing, swimming running
:29:51. > :29:57.and last of all show jumping. all a bit horses, guns and swords -
:29:57. > :30:00.generally not the kind of thing many of us can practice in the park.
:30:00. > :30:06.We didn't do pentathlon at our school. It is already a tricky
:30:06. > :30:09.event but it gets really tough when it comes to the equestrian
:30:09. > :30:15.discipline as the individual horse riders, they don't have their own
:30:15. > :30:18.horse. They inspread to ride a completely unfamiliar beegs.
:30:18. > :30:22.walk forward you take the ping-pong ball out of the hat, it has a
:30:22. > :30:26.number, all the horses are lined up in front of you, they all have
:30:26. > :30:36.numbers on them. It is the ultimate lucky dip but in 2008 we saw how
:30:36. > :30:41.
:30:41. > :30:44.unlucky some of these fateful pairings between man and beast were.
:30:44. > :30:48.You have obviously got other sports you can train for. We are not
:30:49. > :30:58.spending all that time on a horse. Yeah, that definitely seems to be
:30:58. > :31:03.the case. I know what event I am looking forward at London 2012!!
:31:03. > :31:08.The Beijing Olympic, OK, was phenomenal. As we have seen, the
:31:08. > :31:11.only ceremony of the Olympics is the precursor to the greatest show
:31:11. > :31:16.on earth and it is crucial that you do everything in your power to make
:31:16. > :31:21.it go as perfectly as possible and the Chinese went above and beyond
:31:21. > :31:28.the ball of duty. 15,000 performers, 4 billion TV viewers and a cost of
:31:28. > :31:34.$100 million. Nothing was left to chance. The world was star struck
:31:34. > :31:40.as this sweet girl stole the planet's heart. Wearing a red dress
:31:40. > :31:50.and pig tails, she charmed the world audience with a rendition of
:31:50. > :31:51.
:31:51. > :31:56.Owed To the Mother. But it wasn't her voice we could hear. The kid
:31:56. > :31:58.who they got to sing and had the voice of an angel didn't quite look
:31:58. > :32:02.like an angel as far as they were concerned so this young woman had
:32:02. > :32:11.to step into a recording booth and sing her version of the song which
:32:11. > :32:16.was then dubbed on to the miming of a young girl who to, be honest,
:32:16. > :32:24.looking very similar as a Chinese 9-year-old but she did have very
:32:24. > :32:33.straight teeth. Perhaps we can try something similar to introduce the
:32:33. > :32:38.London Olympics. Take. The next thing I heard the fire works
:32:38. > :32:43.procedure. They even created some of their fire works with CGI, but
:32:43. > :32:50.they looked impressive. They had little sly bits and pieces to make
:32:50. > :32:55.it better, it was good. I want it on DVD. I think the Brits can take
:32:55. > :33:00.a leaf out of their book n this one. Just CGI out most of Hackney. I
:33:00. > :33:04.live there and is it not going to look good on camera!! So, London,
:33:04. > :33:09.no pressure then!! If there was one piece of advice,
:33:09. > :33:14.Colin Jackson that you could pass on to young, aspiring athletes,
:33:14. > :33:18.what would it be? Respect yourself. Respect your pop po innocent and
:33:18. > :33:21.you must respect the officials - opponent and you must represent the
:33:21. > :33:30.officials. You always have to respect the officials. If that
:33:30. > :33:35.fails you could always fight them. Cuba is famous for many things -
:33:35. > :33:41.some popular and some not so popular but in the 2008 Beijing
:33:41. > :33:47.games it was Taekwondo that was making the news when this man let
:33:47. > :33:54.his emotions get the better of him. As a fella once said ain't that a
:33:54. > :33:59.kick in the head. He took the law into his own hands
:33:59. > :34:02.when he was ruled against. He thought I could just kind of - I
:34:02. > :34:10.could accept his decision or I could use my Taekwondo gifts and
:34:10. > :34:14.kick him in the head and he chose that option.
:34:14. > :34:19.Can I kick it? # Yes, you can# It wasn't the right
:34:19. > :34:23.thing to do, it wasn't going to gain him any more points but fair
:34:23. > :34:27.play. You come here to kick people, you kick the guy against you, the
:34:27. > :34:33.other guy is having a go, you kick him as well. Someone else comes in
:34:33. > :34:36.you kick them - you kick people, that is what you do. He was furious
:34:36. > :34:43.about the ref disqualifying him and his reaction got his banned for
:34:43. > :34:49.life. It is 2004 and in the men's sprint
:34:49. > :34:54.relay the USA are red-hot favourite to win yet another gold medal while
:34:54. > :34:58.our boys were rank outsiders. GB given no hope, we are going to
:34:58. > :35:02.get our kicked. We are going into this as the underdogs. With were
:35:02. > :35:06.just making up the numbers. Americans were the favourites - of
:35:06. > :35:11.course they were. Everyone thought it is a done deal. The United
:35:11. > :35:14.States will win it. Running the first leg f first leg fn
:35:14. > :35:18.Gardener. Right then was the best change ever we had ever had. Bang,
:35:18. > :35:23.the baton was gone. I can't tell you the relief for me do have the
:35:23. > :35:30.baton out of my hand. Next up Darren Campbell. Halfway
:35:30. > :35:36.through the race we are still in it!! Gardener to Campbell, to
:35:36. > :35:41.Devonish to Francis to finish it off. It was a perfect race. Each
:35:41. > :35:51.pass better than the last pass. It was beautiful. It came down to the
:35:51. > :35:53.
:35:53. > :35:57.smallest of margins of 100 seconds. We can be herry rows just for one
:35:57. > :36:02.day# It was this exchange that cost the favourite. This is where they
:36:02. > :36:09.got in all sorts of bother. Darren Campbell and the boys it
:36:09. > :36:17.must have been the most amazing moment of their lives.
:36:17. > :36:21.Question be her lows...# In Atlanta, 1996, the US women's gymnastic team
:36:21. > :36:28.were vying for gold on home turf and it all came down to the final
:36:28. > :36:34.event and an 18-year-old American. The team event was very, very close
:36:34. > :36:38.for the positions. Kerry subpoena slug was the last person up for
:36:38. > :36:44.vault and injured her ankle. Very difficult to land. You can see she
:36:44. > :36:48.is injured. She goes down and is limping with an ankle injury.
:36:48. > :36:52.pulled her leg ligaments and sprained an ankle. Everybody is
:36:52. > :36:55.counting on you, aren't they, and you don't want to let anyone down
:36:55. > :37:01.and it is as close as it was with the Americans to get gold. It is
:37:01. > :37:05.kind of like, yeah, I hurt myself but I am getting on with it.
:37:05. > :37:10.Determined not to let her team- mates down she mastered the
:37:10. > :37:15.strength to go again. And she made it!! Ouch. To stand up and go I
:37:15. > :37:19.want the gold this much they am prepared to maybe cause myself
:37:19. > :37:23.long-term injury, that is pretty incredible. She is superhuman.
:37:23. > :37:26.Everyone likes a big finish. That was her big finish. Yeah, it is mad,
:37:26. > :37:30.it is a little bit insane, that is what if Olympics are and that is
:37:30. > :37:34.what it takes to be a winner. she lands after the final jump she
:37:34. > :37:37.does a weird movement thing like a toddler shuffling on the carpet and
:37:38. > :37:43.I don't know if that is a celebration or if she is terribly
:37:43. > :37:51.injured. Following her success she was
:37:51. > :37:58.carryed to the podium by her coach, carry they were crowned gold medal
:37:58. > :38:04.winners and boy did they celebrate. The only way you can the-by-seen
:38:04. > :38:08.pissed, pissed, you are in Lanzaroiti and
:38:08. > :38:18.it is 3 in the morning. I think that which were doing impromptu
:38:18. > :38:18.
:38:18. > :38:24.versions of the dance, that is cool. I salute you Kerry Shrug.
:38:24. > :38:32.So in 1998 and things were going really wrath err well. Then this
:38:32. > :38:42.happened. -- rather well. Then this happens. Roy Jones junior is
:38:42. > :38:43.
:38:43. > :38:48.fighting,. He pummels him. He beat him into the ground. He demolished
:38:48. > :38:52.this guy. He just went bring your face closerly hit it. Bring your
:38:52. > :38:58.face closer, I will hit it. absolutely hammered him from pillar
:38:58. > :39:06.to post for three rounds. And you are kind of thinking he has won,
:39:06. > :39:12.that is it, it is obvious. It was obvious Roy Jones Junior had beaten
:39:12. > :39:22.the home boy. He handed up 80 something punchs to Parks 36 so of
:39:22. > :39:22.
:39:22. > :39:27.course he is going to get the gold medal. No. In the blue corner...
:39:27. > :39:30.Never lost that faith. Everyone knew it, including the guy he was
:39:30. > :39:33.fighting against. That guy looked embarrassed when he took that gold
:39:33. > :39:39.medal. They must have said whatever happens here he is the gold medal
:39:40. > :39:44.list and that is it, which is just terrible. The least deserved gold
:39:44. > :39:48.medal. An outragous decision in my opinion. In the aftermath of the
:39:48. > :39:53.bout all three judges voting against Jones were suspend but Park
:39:53. > :40:03.was still allowed to keep the gold medal. The worst decision I have
:40:03. > :40:10.
:40:10. > :40:15.ever seen. I have never seen one It is humbling. Glory years, hey?
:40:15. > :40:25.Yes, it is, it is. Not all Olympians have very
:40:25. > :40:26.
:40:26. > :40:30.glorious 1 sporting years. The Montreal Olympics will be
:40:30. > :40:35.remember for Princess Anne becoming the only royal ever to compete for
:40:35. > :40:40.Britain when she swapped a tiara for a hard hat and rode one of her
:40:40. > :40:45.mum's horses. But 1976 was famous for an extraordinary case of
:40:45. > :40:49.sabotage, as Boris Onischchenko took on dashing Brit Jim Fox in a
:40:49. > :40:55.fencing hit. Nice uniform, Blue Eyes! Jim Fox
:40:55. > :40:58.said to the referee after Boris Onischchenko had supposedly hit him,
:40:58. > :41:02.he believed that Boris Onischchenko hadn't hit him. It was obvious to
:41:02. > :41:07.everybody that he hadn't hit me. They checked Boris Onischchenko'
:41:07. > :41:17.sword and he had a switch. Every time he got near an opponent, the
:41:17. > :41:33.
:41:33. > :41:38.light would go on. The more times he - all he needed
:41:38. > :41:42.to do was press his thumb and the light would go on in the box.
:41:42. > :41:46.all the idiots are doing all this, I will just do this!
:41:46. > :41:48.Three hours after the fight, he was winning points when he was in the
:41:48. > :41:53.dressing room. And people were thinking Boris Onischchenko is
:41:53. > :41:56.really good! It is like something a James Bond
:41:56. > :42:00.villain would come up with, to win, a button in the sword!
:42:00. > :42:05.Who would have thought that the sport where the aim is to stab your
:42:05. > :42:14.opponent with a sword could be so dastardly. Always keeb to have fun
:42:14. > :42:21.with a cheating foreign name, the Suns labelled Boris Onischchenko as
:42:21. > :42:25.dis-Boris Onischchenko. They went on to win gold as Boris
:42:25. > :42:30.Onischchenko was swiftly stripped of his medals and became a taxi
:42:30. > :42:32.driver in his native Kiev. Make sure you keep an eye on his metre!
:42:32. > :42:40.If somebody cheats in the Olympic Games, there is no point in having
:42:40. > :42:46.them at all. What is the furthest you have run?
:42:46. > :42:51.450m. It was tough, too. I'm sure it was. But can you imagine running
:42:51. > :43:01.for 26 miles? Would I have to jump fences all around too? No, you
:43:01. > :43:06.
:43:06. > :43:10.wouldn't. Even without hurdles, the marathon can be a rough old race.
:43:10. > :43:20.The marathon is one of the most testing. In 1984, women competed
:43:20. > :43:24.for the first time too. It is such an old, outdated frame
:43:24. > :43:31.of mind that men are strong, big, and women do other things. No-one
:43:32. > :43:35.sums up the Olympic spirit and desire to succeed more than
:43:35. > :43:38.Gabriela Anderson-Scheiss. I loved the determination to finish. If you
:43:38. > :43:43.can get round a marathon course, good for you. But...
:43:43. > :43:47.She looked like she had found a bottle of vodka on the way and had
:43:47. > :43:54.been detached from a hen party somewhere!
:43:54. > :44:01.It looks like she had an imagery friend who was trying to get her to
:44:01. > :44:06.leave. "Gabrielle, forget this, come on." And she was like, "No,
:44:06. > :44:09.stop it! Stop it, Charlie, I'm going to finish it." Suffering from
:44:09. > :44:14.heat exhaustion, she took five painful minutes and 44 gruelling
:44:14. > :44:24.seconds to complete the last 400m of the race. But, still beat six
:44:24. > :44:28.other runners. Everyone was trying to run in and
:44:28. > :44:37.save her. Guys in white, going, "Oh, no, no, no."
:44:37. > :44:42.But she makes it. And the crowd gives her an amazing
:44:42. > :44:49.ovation. And she deserved it. She might not have won gold but she wan
:44:49. > :44:53.our hearts and a well deserved lie- down.
:44:53. > :44:57.Britain is a bit rubbish at most Games. When someone comes on the
:44:57. > :45:02.scene who is good at what they do, we love them. In 1992 it was
:45:02. > :45:05.linford Christie who set our pulses racing, as he sought to win the
:45:05. > :45:09.limp's most glamorous event, the 100m sprint. It is the biggest
:45:09. > :45:12.event, the 100m. It is a tag - the fastest man in the world, the one
:45:12. > :45:15.that everyone wants to watch. If you are an athlete, it is the one
:45:15. > :45:20.you want to win. After coming to athletics late, and only winning
:45:20. > :45:29.his first big race at the age of 26, Christie had taken silver at the
:45:29. > :45:35.Seoul Games in 1988 behind Carl Lewis. But Christie stormed to
:45:35. > :45:39.victory in 9.6 seconds. It was an air of confidence about
:45:39. > :45:43.him that you just knew that there was going to have to be a
:45:43. > :45:46.superhuman effort to stop him from being first part of the line. No-
:45:46. > :45:49.one else had it other than him on that particular day.
:45:49. > :45:54.COMMENTATOR: Christie is storming through!
:45:54. > :46:02.Linford Christie! I just remember he came through the
:46:02. > :46:05.line. The British flag, the Union Jack!
:46:05. > :46:15.That was, like, a big win. The fact that we had the fastest man in the
:46:15. > :46:16.
:46:16. > :46:26.world living in our country. Still to come - misery. That makes
:46:26. > :46:31.
:46:31. > :46:40.this an almost impossible situation. The look on his face. It is just
:46:40. > :46:47.like... What is this I'm hearing about the
:46:47. > :46:50.Olympic ideal? That you have to win u at all costs, even if it means
:46:50. > :46:55.gouging your opponent's eyes out? It is the importance of taking part.
:46:55. > :47:03.That is for sure. Winning doesn't matter? No, no, not really. That is
:47:03. > :47:07.lucky! Paula Radcliffe, the fastest woman
:47:07. > :47:12.marathon runner of all time. An athlete of truly amazing renown, a
:47:12. > :47:18.clutter of world records, three times the winner of the London
:47:18. > :47:22.moor-athon, winner of the Chicago marathon. She is the best and ours!
:47:22. > :47:26.Paula Radcliffe was the big golden girl of British athletes. It is
:47:26. > :47:29.rare that a British athlete is the best ever at their thing.
:47:29. > :47:33.arrived in Athens in 2004, with the nation's hopes pinned to her, and
:47:33. > :47:36.we all sat back to watch her romp to victory.
:47:36. > :47:39.Going into Athens, she was going to be the girl that brought back the
:47:39. > :47:42.gold medal. The unfortunate thing is that everybody put the gold
:47:42. > :47:48.medal around her head, way too early. It should have been her
:47:48. > :47:51.finest hour, winning gold in the marathon herself. But she ran the
:47:51. > :47:55.race looking more like Daniel Radcliffe than Paula Radcliffe.
:47:55. > :48:01.realised she would not make up the difference. Rather than carry on,
:48:01. > :48:05.she just stopped! I think she should have dragged
:48:05. > :48:10.herself over the line. It was an Olympics. But when she started
:48:10. > :48:15.crying at the end - how to not just think, "Poor woman, she couldn't do
:48:15. > :48:19.it." Paula was distraught. hurting so much inside of myself.
:48:19. > :48:23.I feel like I've let everyone down. Paula, you have not let anyone down
:48:23. > :48:27.at all. And just five days later, Paula had
:48:27. > :48:31.the chance of redemption in the 10,000 m. Paula's a fighter, you
:48:31. > :48:36.know? If there is anyone who can come back from something like that,
:48:36. > :48:41.it is Paula Radcliffe. 10,000 m, for Paula, that is nothing! That is
:48:41. > :48:47.a sprint! This is what legends are made of! Come on, Paula! Hang on -
:48:47. > :48:51.why is she at the back?! Something wrong with Paula Radcliffe. Oh...
:48:51. > :48:55.COMMENTATOR: Why is she stopping? Radcliffe tried her best for
:48:56. > :49:01.Britain, but things just didn't go to plan.
:49:01. > :49:07.It has to be totally crushed me emotionally.
:49:07. > :49:09.I know she was not in shape to do it, physically, probably shouldn't
:49:10. > :49:13.- medically, probably shouldn't - have competed. I would like to have
:49:13. > :49:17.thought. They had the balls that she had. She is a woman - she
:49:17. > :49:21.doesn't have balls! But don't worry, Britain, Paula is back for 2012. We
:49:22. > :49:24.are backing her to win it on home soil and give her a great and not
:49:24. > :49:28.heart-breaking Olympic moment. History will remember Paula
:49:28. > :49:38.Radcliffe as one of the best female British distance runners of all
:49:38. > :49:39.
:49:39. > :49:46.time. That never-say-die attitude is why she is where she is now.
:49:46. > :49:51.At the 1998 Games in Seoul, a good athlete became a great athlete, as
:49:51. > :49:57.Florence Griffith Joyne became Flo Joe and became a different runner
:49:57. > :50:01.to the one of the 1984 Games. Comebz comens a marvellous start.
:50:01. > :50:06.She moves away! COMMENTATOR: A marvellous start!
:50:06. > :50:09.She moves awoman! 10.54 - a new Olympic record. It was not just her
:50:09. > :50:15.newly manicured nails that had changed - she looked bigger, better,
:50:15. > :50:22.faster and a lot harder. The time she ran was off the
:50:22. > :50:26.planet! 100, 200 - helped her team win the
:50:26. > :50:32.400m relay. She was running times that a very good club male athlete
:50:32. > :50:36.would run now. That is why what I do in the practise - No-one has
:50:36. > :50:40.beaten her record. No-one had thought that a woman could run a
:50:40. > :50:47.100m at the time she did. But she did. She didn't just break records
:50:47. > :50:53.but smashed them into pieces. greatest woman sprinter of all time.
:50:53. > :50:58.But Flo-Joe became plagued with rumours about suspected steroid and
:50:58. > :51:05.testosterone abuse. Everyone hinted at something else making her good.
:51:06. > :51:10.They talked about how bizarrely muscular she was. She was an
:51:10. > :51:14.immensely talented athlete. If she was on drugs, it is ashame she
:51:14. > :51:21.didn't do it clean. I think she could have run crazy times if she
:51:21. > :51:28.had done it as a clean athlete. retired a year after the '88
:51:28. > :51:32.Olympics, having never failed in her career, but sadly died 10 years
:51:32. > :51:38.of later after heart failure. is still one of the greatest
:51:38. > :51:43.Olympians ever. Gres oco-Roman wrestling. That
:51:44. > :51:48.cannot be in the Olympics?! A Russian by the name of Alexander
:51:48. > :51:55.was looking to win an amazing fourth consecutive Olympic gold.
:51:55. > :52:00.the only thing scarier than Alexander Karolyn is after you have
:52:00. > :52:05.accidentally pinched his bottom! The only man who stood between the
:52:05. > :52:11.Russian and another Olympic triumph was American Roland Gardener.
:52:11. > :52:16.Karolyn had been undefeated for 13 years. Gardener was competing in
:52:16. > :52:21.his first Olympics. People love an underdog. You see the little
:52:21. > :52:31.American guy. I was thinking this is him! Chubby kids running around
:52:31. > :52:33.
:52:33. > :52:37.thinking, "Oh, my God, he will be murdered." Nobody gave him a crack!
:52:37. > :52:44.You wouldn't fancy your chances., COMMENTATOR: One point given to
:52:44. > :52:47.Gardener. Karelin has a problem. has never won anything more of this
:52:47. > :52:50.magnitude and you thought the Russian guy would use him as a
:52:50. > :52:54.toothpick. COMMENTATOR: He leads by one point
:52:54. > :53:01.to nil. It was shock horror! Alexander, the scariest wrestler in
:53:01. > :53:11.the whole world, gets beaten by a man called Roland! That is a
:53:11. > :53:11.
:53:11. > :53:21.deodorant - right?! The king was dead.
:53:21. > :53:23.
:53:23. > :53:27.Long live the king! Richard Yeah. Only 194 British
:53:27. > :53:32.athletes have won an Olympic medal. I have one of them. I think you
:53:32. > :53:41.mentioned that! Shall I show you it? Later, Colin.
:53:41. > :53:46.First, a completely deranged priest!
:53:46. > :53:52.The Olympic Games is renowned for featuring the greatest athletes of
:53:52. > :53:57.all time, Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis. In Athens we were introduced to
:53:57. > :54:02.someone else entirely. Meet the strange and possibly
:54:02. > :54:07.dangerous Cornelius Horan. Previously, he had turned up at
:54:07. > :54:11.Silverstone and ran in front of the cars. And I think he thought, well,
:54:11. > :54:16.fast cars maybe next time I should go in front of a runner. That is
:54:16. > :54:22.clearly what he did. He wasn't going to miss the biggest stage of
:54:22. > :54:32.them all, as he chose to tragically ruin the Brazilian's runner's hopes
:54:32. > :54:33.
:54:33. > :54:37.of winning gold in the 2004 marathon as he led after 22 miles.
:54:37. > :54:42.The look on his face - he was just like - not only is the most
:54:42. > :54:48.important day of my life, I've just been accosted by some prat.
:54:48. > :54:51.thraest it was for a very worthy cause. I went to Athens to draw the
:54:51. > :54:55.attention of all mankind to the nearness of the second coming of
:54:55. > :55:01.Christ. Right, thanks for the heads-up,
:55:01. > :55:09.Cornelius! It is a marathon! He has run so far.
:55:09. > :55:12.He has trained so much. And then one moron can screw it up!
:55:12. > :55:17.Amazingly, he recovered his xorz to finish third. But robbing him of
:55:17. > :55:27.the gold has been on his conscience and Cornelius has finally decided
:55:27. > :55:29.
:55:29. > :55:34.how he can repay the Brazilian. would like to go to Brazil to
:55:34. > :55:38.perform a jig for him and his family, and his tribe and village.
:55:38. > :55:44.Yes, Cornelius, I'm not sure you will be all that welcome. And steer
:55:44. > :55:50.clear of London 2012 while you're at it. The Beijing Games were
:55:50. > :55:55.watched by over a billion and a half people.
:55:55. > :56:00.The Spanish basketball team seemed to miss the memo.
:56:00. > :56:07.The Spanish basketball team posed for a team photograph, they did a
:56:07. > :56:15.parody of orental expression. -- oriental expression.
:56:15. > :56:18.It is racist. What a way to treat the hosts!
:56:18. > :56:23.don't think it endeared them to the Chinese.
:56:23. > :56:28.The only thing I could think of the reason they did that is maybe they
:56:28. > :56:32.thought it wasn't offensive. It was offensive. Very offensive.
:56:32. > :56:36.But hold on, it is not their fault. They were told to do it. They
:56:36. > :56:43.blamed it on the fact that the sponsors had requested it. Who was
:56:43. > :56:53.sponsoring it? When they were asked to do that, someone must have said,
:56:53. > :56:53.
:56:53. > :56:59."Isn't that racist?" They offended a whole nation. Not only that, but
:56:59. > :57:03.the whole nation which has billions of people in it! The team went on
:57:03. > :57:13.to win the silver medal. It seems they will be remembered more for
:57:13. > :57:14.
:57:14. > :57:17.this inglorious snap than anything else. It was a massive boo boo!
:57:17. > :57:20.For those who are -- those are the first 25 most amazing moments of
:57:20. > :57:25.the Olympic Games. But there's always one thing you
:57:25. > :57:32.know about the Olympics. Yep, next time, the there will be always be
:57:32. > :57:38.more, more glory, spectacle, records, tears. And more medals for
:57:38. > :57:45.Team GB! Yes! Could we unearth another Linford, or a silver
:57:45. > :57:50.medallist or a gold at the hurdles? Yeah, well, we do well in cycling
:57:50. > :58:00.and rowing. What about the horse pentathlon!? Watch the second
:58:00. > :58:02.